Wow, I appreciate the above reader's thoughts on this song's meaning! I've been very deep into this song this week, comparing it some to passages in the Song of Songs, (a study of which is a life-time pursuit of mine) So here's my 2 cents worth, or maybe more to someone who may be feeling like they lost their way (like I have been, in this season), and long to "get back home."
My understanding is this song is being sung in the woods, which to me represents an adventurous and romantic life of intimacy with God, not unlike the pure and childlike life of the Garden in Eden. But this woman is being tempted away from intimacy with a man who deeply loves her, for a “city” life.
Now what this city represents, is personal. It could mean anything that we put on a pedestal, leading to an internal pull and distraction away from staying in that more vulnerable place of faith, and intimacy, with God and others.
But there’s another layer to the song, which is overwhelming to me. The man is obviously wooing her to stay with him, at least one night, but in his great love for her, he says he will meet up with her again - in the city!
Such amazing love this Man has. We can’t escape it, wherever we go.
Wow, I appreciate the above reader's thoughts on this song's meaning! I've been very deep into this song this week, comparing it some to passages in the Song of Songs, (a study of which is a life-time pursuit of mine) So here's my 2 cents worth, or maybe more to someone who may be feeling like they lost their way (like I have been, in this season), and long to "get back home."
My understanding is this song is being sung in the woods, which to me represents an adventurous and romantic life of intimacy with God, not unlike the pure and childlike life of the Garden in Eden. But this woman is being tempted away from intimacy with a man who deeply loves her, for a “city” life.
Now what this city represents, is personal. It could mean anything that we put on a pedestal, leading to an internal pull and distraction away from staying in that more vulnerable place of faith, and intimacy, with God and others.
But there’s another layer to the song, which is overwhelming to me. The man is obviously wooing her to stay with him, at least one night, but in his great love for her, he says he will meet up with her again - in the city!
Such amazing love this Man has. We can’t escape it, wherever we go.
How else would we get home?